Recent content by Thedutchtouch

first post since 2018ish - thanks for this thread. i have quite a few gamma sealed buckets of bulk grain that have been sitting in my basement for 8 years due to a too-long brewing hiatus. i may give it a go trying to brew with some of them after reading this. i was going to toss them but...

Interesting. Glad I haven't placed my order yet... Looks like a great option, looking forward to the sale dates being posted soon as I will also want to jump on this quickly.

didnt understand the "dont switch SSR's with electromechanical relays"... I'm not planning on doing that. by redundancy above i meant, if i fry an element SSR, i can use a pump SSR in it's place. i don't have any electromechanical relays, just the pi, switches (controlling the contactors)...

you can add a tee to your water supply line right after the shut off valve under the sink, throw another shut off valve valve on one end of the the tee output, the other goes directly to the sink as normal, and presto, you have somewhere to connect a brewery line hidden under the sink, only...

would a 2 inch version work instead of 2.5 inch? https://www.brewershardware.com/1-2-NPT-Stainless-Pipe-Nipple-2-OAL.html 3 dollars. edit: too slow

i know, i was initially going to use those , but decided on SSR's for the elements and pumps so that i'd have redundancy in case i fried an element SSR during a brew day... very easy to switch over wiring, I'd lose control over a pump (building in mechanical switches as well because.. well...

i bought these. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076H12C3J/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 i've heard they'll work fine off the Pi GPIO's, but i'll be doing some tests this week to make sure before i wire everything up.

when it's pretty cheap to get a stainless container of the same size, i see no point to boiling/heating in plastic. fermenting, on the other hand... i do all the time in plastic.

ok. gentle bending... here i come. fingers crossed.

I sourced some triclamp elements from china- the element itself seems to be folded/crimped a bit tightly so it's in contact with itself in one area... Before I try to bend them apart a bit, does this even matter?

ok. I went with mager/ MGR SSR's from Amazon, for my 2 elements (240v) and my pumps (120v chuggers) so hopefully they work Of with my Pi GPIO's as the 12v doesn't really benefit me otherwise. Unless anyone else weighs in with different reasons, I'm going to move forward with my build, and if...

I've been slowly building/researching a raspberry pi based brewery controller (3vessel eHERMS), and plan to use crafteerpi to run it... I've seen it mentioned in a few places that the expansion boards etc are necessary in order to not fry components... but on the craftbeerpi.com site, there's a...

what is this "stink of brewing" anyway? brewing smells great!

new user, just did my install earlier this evening. still working on building out the hardware wise for my 3 vessel eHERMS setup so can't speak to that much yet (all i have wired so far is a new 30a dryer outlet and a spa panel with a plug/pigtail wired on, but i've purchased 95% of my...

it would probably be a lot easier to just run the mash element to get to mash in temp, power down the controller, unplug the mash element (or from the element) and plug into the sparge element. like you said you'd have to move the thermocouple as well, or wire two to a on-off-on switch.